[squeak-dev] Re: category support fixes for MC1.5?

Andreas Raab andreas.raab at gmx.de
Thu Mar 26 21:45:03 UTC 2009


Igor Stasenko wrote:
> as a side note, are category order are that important?

Yes.

> To me, its a browser who should care to show them in alphabetical
> order to ease finding a needed caterory , when they number are big
> (like in Object)

There is logical order (initialize comes first, then accessing, private 
goes last) that I usually stick to. But more importantly there is 
internal consistency. To me it makes a big difference to see, e.g.,

events
accessing
private
filters
initialize
queries

vs.

initialize
accessing
events
filters
queries
private

(this is an example taken straight out of code that I'm looking at this 
very moment with MC having messed it up into the first form where I 
wrote it in the second form). At the very least MC should respect the 
intention of people who care.

Cheers,
   - Andreas



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